Henry III, king of England

King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Aquitaine

Events

Date of Birth: 1 October 1207.

Place of Birth: Winchester Castle.

The date is given by Ridgeway (ODNB).

Date of Death: 16 November 1272.

Place of Death: Westminster.

The date and place are given by Ridgeway (ODNB).

Place of Burial: Westminster Abbey.

Relationships

Father: John, king of England (1167 - 1216).

This relationship is given by Ridgeway (ODNB).

Mother: Isabella of Angoulême (about 1188 - 1246).

This relationship is given by Ridgeway (ODNB).

Spouse: Éléonore de Provence (about 1223 - 1291). Married 20 January 1236 at Westminster.

This relationship is given by Ridgeway (ODNB).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 - 8 July 1307) married (1) Leonor de Castilla 1 November 1254 in Las Huelgas; married (2) Marguerite de France 8 or 9 September 1299 at Canterbury.

Margaret (29 September [or about 5 October] 1240 - 27 February 1275) married Alexander III, King of Scotland, 26 December 1251 in York.

Beatrice (25 June 1242 - 24 March 1275) married Jean de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond, in 1260. Jean succeeded as Duke of Brittany in 1286.

Edmund (16 January 1245 - 5 June 1296) married (1) Aveline de Forz in 1269; married (2) Blanche d’Artois in 1276. Edmund was created Earl of Leicester in 1265 and Earl of Lancaster in 1267.

Katherine

other children

References

Knowles, C.H. "Heinrich III." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Lloyd, Simon. “Edmund, first earl of Lancaster and first earl of Leicester (1245 - 1296) in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Nichols, John. A collection of all the wills, now known to be extant, of the kings and queens of England, princes and princesses of Wales, and every branch of the blood royal: from the reign of William the Conqueror to that of Henry the Seventh, exclusive, with explanatory notes and a glossary. (London: J. Nichols, 1780) [Pages 15 to 17 give Henry’s will.]

Ridgeway, H.W. “Henry III (1207 - 1272)”, in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).